Short-Term Tourist Letting Register

No it isn't, Airbnb guests for most part are out all day. You have a mixture of different people coming to stay for few nights from around the world. You might have few free nights before another couple book in. You can set your Airbnb calender to how you want to take bookings, block dates etc.

Someone in rent a room scheme is different kettle of fish, they in your house sometimes all day, every day, using your heating, cooking facilities etc. Many hosts will not do it, It's simple not going to happen.

There is so much clarity needed. Best email your local political representatives. Bord Failte website announces, every one must register with them, from renting a room to whole houses, so no one has an iota what's going on.

The legislation, pages and pages of it...

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/b3f11-short-term-tourist-letting-bill/

Sister rang bord failte today, they informed her all the bits of the legislation has not gone through the house yet. She said once it has gone through, bord faillte will have all the details on their website.

For now, people need to contact the planning dept of their local council explain to them what they currently letting on Airbnb, if it's a room or two in your own home, you fill out a form 15 and show proof of address. Even if you are in rent pressure zone you ok to let room/rooms in your own home. Then when legislation goes live, the council will contact you and you will be informed to register your short term let on the bord failte website, it will be a simple process, she said no body will be calling to your home to check for quality control or anything like that. When you register you will be given a registration number which you will then provide to Airbnb or booking.com and then you can carry on doing your short term letting.

People letting out whole apartments and houses in Rent Pressure Zones might find it much more difficult to get planning from the council in which case you won't get the registration number from bord failte to carry on with the short term letting.

Hope this clarified matters

That's down the line and to be fair it's just a registration process with bord failte. Tourists/ travellers booking with Airbnb or booking.com will know the score, they read the reviews then book accordingly.

So if we have a property that DOES have planning for short term lets, will we need to register with Failte Ireland? At the moment, we don't have to register with the council.

If the government forced everyone with a spare room in their house to take in someone, that would also be popular with people without homes at present-Your lack of unserstanding or even the willingness to look at the points people are making, begs belief-I'm 45, Ive shared a house with someone once in my life, that was when I was in my early 20's, Ive lived in NEw york for 11 years, for 8 of those, I had a spare room-I never wanted a 'housemate', Im back in Ireland 11 years andfor 11 years, Ive had 1 or 2 spare rooms, in a town that I could rent out at the drop of a hat, but I would never, could never rent out a spare room on a lon term basis-.

that, or not renting the room out-you really seem to live a sheltered life, most airbnb guests that rent a room are lower econonomic class people, they cannot afford to pay the rates of a hotel etc to travel, some want the use of a kitvhen to keep costs down, some want to stay in a home of an actual Irish permanent resident. This will male travel for these people unaffordable, in turn reducing the amount of visitors to coffee shops and lower level restaurants etc.

But, you are failing to see the point, I feel there is nothing I can say to convince you otherwise.

On another point, I fill my room/s for 330+- nights per year, some people do it for 20 or 50, or whatever, I will go through the process, others won't. What this means for me, is, People in my situation can raise my prices, as there is less competition. I could make more money, the same as with Ukranians filling hotel rooms, driving up the prices of the other available short term lets. Others can make more money, but it's not good for the economy in general, it's not good for Irelandas a tourist destination, it makes us even more unaffordable. I said this to my local councillors back in March, when I could foresee what would happen, lo and behold, 6 months later, they are scrambling to try and fix a problem that should have been avoided.

But, it was the populist thing to do... so they did it.

It has damaged the community spirit in many areas, this will have the same effect.

My sister is doing Air bnb. Maybe only about 20 or so days a year when the kids are away, just to get some money together for the family holiday. I saw this thread and sent it to her. She has already indicated she has no idea whats happening and its easier to just stop doing airbnb.

Trying to understand the imminent rules and how they may affect a property I am currently considering buying.

It is currently not in an RPZ (in Kerry, outside Killarney LEA) and not registered with Failte Ireland.

My understanding is that

• It will need to be registered with Failte Ireland once the register becomes live, but that seems to be a simple self-registration process.
• It will not need any planning permission to be let via AirBNB as it is not in an RPZ

There seems to be some semi-contradictory information online, but Kerry Coco seem pretty adamant that anything outside an RPZ isn't affected by the new regulations (https://www.kerrycoco.ie/planning/development-management/home-sharing-lettings/)

As it happens, this particular property is not really suitable for full-time living, but I'm wary about acquiring a place that I won't be able to let out for the half of the year that I won't be using it myself.

I'd appreciate any advice from anyone more familiar with the imminent / new rules.